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    1. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

      Our first story comes from Max, a female detransitioner who says that her transition was about ‘escaping lesbophobia and male harassment’. #ManchesterDetrans

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    2. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

      Max notes that ‘every person who is born female is forced to modify her appearance in some way’. #ManchesterDetrans

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    3. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

      Discussing the benefits of therapy for dysphoric individuals, Max says ‘it took a long time to link gender and body issues to what was going on in my life’. #ManchesterDetrans

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    4. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

      Max finishes by saying ‘there isn’t a simple answer here. We need to think about it, talk about it and ask these questions’. #ManchesterDetrans

      1 reply 8 retweets 72 likes
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    5. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

      Our next speaker is Kira, who describes herself as being ‘caught up in transition’. #ManchesterDetrans

      1 reply 9 retweets 50 likes
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    6. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

      She says that as a child she had no female role models, socialised with boys and ‘was free to be the gender nonconformist child [she] was until puberty’ when she ‘started to feel the social pressures to conform’ to femininity. #ManchesterDetrans

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    7. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

      Kira began hormone replacement therapy and had a double mastectomy at 20 years old but she discovered that ‘hormones and surgery can only do so much’ #ManchesterDetrans

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    8. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

      She asks the very moving question, ‘How can I possibly be loving myself if I am sacrificing my general health in order to change my whole being?’ #ManchesterDetrans

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    9. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

      Kira closes by saying ‘medical transition doesn’t have to be the only response to gender identity issues’. #ManchesterDetrans

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    10. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

      We will now here from a panel of experts including Tavistock employee Dr David Bell (speaking in a personal capacity), psychotherapist @stellaomalley3, NHS doctor and clinical researcher @HannahKJRyan and clinical psychologist Dr Anna Hutchinson. #ManchesterDetrans

      3 replies 15 retweets 86 likes
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      Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

      Dr David Bell says ‘as far as I know, I do not think any centre has properly followed up the patients’. He is shocked that clinics ‘carry out a major intervention and not follow up the patients’. #ManchesterDetrans

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        2. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          He adds that the term ‘puberty blockers’ is misleading. He says that they are ‘potent drugs’ which probably have physiological consequences beyond affecting puberty. #ManchesterDetrans

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        3. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          He goes on to say that the term ‘puberty blockers’ falsely implies that they are a targeted medical intervention and ‘lures us towards a simplification of something that is much more complex than that’. #ManchesterDetrans

          1 reply 21 retweets 106 likes
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        4. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          @stellaomalley3 says that ‘the lack of long term evidence is the biggest issue in this field...we need to tread carefully’. #ManchesterDetrans

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        5. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          Dr Ann Hutchinson points out the alarming statistic that ‘nearly 100% of those who take puberty blockers go on to take cross-sex hormones’. #ManchesterDetrans

          1 reply 21 retweets 94 likes
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        6. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          @charlie_sci adds that ‘we have no system to effectively collect data on detransition’. @HannahKJRyan agrees, highlighting the importance of acknowledging that existing statistics on detransition are highly questionable. #ManchesterDetrans

          2 replies 16 retweets 86 likes
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        7. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          @HannahKJRyan notes that the effects of puberty blockers and HRT are long term and so long term data collection on these treatments is absolutely crucial. #ManchesterDetrans

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        8. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          Dr David Bell asks someone absolutely crucial questions: ‘Why is this happening? What kind of social, cultural events are leading to this rapid change? Has there been a sudden rise in misogyny? Are girls internalising their hatred of femininity?’ #ManchesterDetrans

          2 replies 28 retweets 138 likes
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        9. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          He says that ‘it would be very reductionist to put this down to individuals’ and says that understanding the complex social and cultural factors motivating this rapid change will take time. #ManchesterDetrans

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        10. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          He questions the concerning ‘rush to [give] experimental treatment’. #ManchesterDetrans

          1 reply 7 retweets 58 likes
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        11. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          @HannahKJRyan says that more clinicians are starting to engage with the issue and she hopes that more medical professionals will speak out. She says ‘there is a lot of pressure to move quickly’. #ManchesterDetrans

          2 replies 10 retweets 70 likes
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        12. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          @HannahKJRyan says that those health professionals working face to face with children and teenagers who are experiencing a lot of distress are under ‘immense pressure’, both professionally and morally, to act. #ManchesterDetrans

          1 reply 14 retweets 75 likes
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        13. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          Dr David Bell says that there is fear amongst medical professionals of being called transphobic or being accused of a hate crime. #ManchesterDetrans

          1 reply 20 retweets 102 likes
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        14. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          Dr Anna Hutchinson says that medical professionals are accused of transphobia for calling for more research. She says ‘how can it be transphobic to call for better standards of care? I want better standards of care for dysphoric children’. #ManchesterDetrans

          1 reply 55 retweets 159 likes
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        15. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          A member of the audience who is also a medical professional working in this field describes his experiences of being silenced. He says, ‘we are advised against using the terms detransition and desisters’ and says that this deeply worries him. #ManchesterDetrans

          1 reply 39 retweets 132 likes
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        16. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          He also describes how the conflation of gender identity and sexuality is leading to a form of conversion therapy for these children. #ManchesterDetrans

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        17. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          Another audience member, a clinical psychologist and lecturer, describes her concerns about the ‘affirmation-only model’ which advocates immediate social transition for gender-questioning children. #ManchesterDetrans

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        18. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          @HannahKJRyan agrees and notes that the impact of social transition is significant and should not be underestimated. #ManchesterDetrans

          1 reply 13 retweets 76 likes
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        19. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          An audience member notes that gender ideology feels like old school sexism. Dr David Bell responds by saying that he has observed a ‘caricaturing of gender stereotypes’ through transition. #ManchesterDetrans

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        20. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          Dr Bell also says there is ‘a great confusion in talking about gender and talking about sexuality as if they are the same thing’. He laments that gay and lesbian young people are being deprived of the opportunity to come terms with their emerging sexuality. #ManchesterDetrans

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        21. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          Dr Bell also makes the harrowing link between the rise in medical transition and increasingly commodified & privatised healthcare where the ‘consumer is always right’. He feels that treating patients as consumers is dangerous & leads to a rush to transition. #ManchesterDetrans

          2 replies 46 retweets 169 likes
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        22. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          @stellaomalley3 says that the relationship between gender-questioning individuals and therapists should be ‘explorative and slow’. #ManchesterDetrans

          1 reply 17 retweets 98 likes
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        23. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          @HannahKJRyan says that ‘there isn’t open dialogue’ between all relevant parties and that discussions such as today’s @MakeMoreNoise2 event are incredibly important. #ManchesterDetrans

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        24. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          @stellaomalley3 describes the difficulty she experienced in making her documentary ‘Trans Kids – It’s Time To Talk’ as so many sources refused to speak on the issue. #ManchesterDetrans

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        25. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          She says that we must galvanise as we can’t let the non-experts rule the debate. #ManchesterDetrans

          3 replies 11 retweets 73 likes
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        26. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          We will now hear from a brave panel of detransitioners including @tjdetrans and @sathananas. #ManchesterDetrans

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        27. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          ‘Us detransitioners agree that medical transition is not the perfect solution to gender dysphoria’. #ManchesterDetrans

          1 reply 15 retweets 73 likes
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        28. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          Ellie describes having a lack of role models who were masculine females and how she struggled to envisage growing up to be a lesbian woman. #ManchesterDetrans

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        29. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          @sathananas also describes having no lesbians around her growing up and also struggling to imagine her life as a lesbian woman. She describes coming to the realisation that her transition was at least partially motivated by internalised homophobia. #ManchesterDetrans

          1 reply 20 retweets 92 likes
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        30. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          @tjdetrans describes the influence of the internet on her transition. When she was 14, feeling socially isolated & struggling to admit that she is a lesbian, ‘being able to see things online which gave [her] a way out of those things was very reassuring’. #ManchesterDetrans

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        31. Safe Schools Alliance‏ @SafeSchools_UK 30 Nov 2019

          @sathananas makes some extremely heartfelt and moving statements. Regarding her fellow panelists she says ‘where have these women been all my life? It could have prevented all this pain and suffering if I had these women in my life’. #ManchesterDetrans

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